Where the Red Fern Grows
Wilson Rawls • 1961
Devastation Rating
loss grief literary fiction family
Our Take
A boy and two hounds in the Ozarks. Rawls builds the love between them with such simple devotion that when the end comes it splits you open. This is the book that taught a generation of children that love and loss are the same thing.
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